Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) was one of the leading figures in the development of the modernist short story and her writings were a profound influence on writers such as Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence. Presenting for the first time draft manuscripts of some of her most important stories, this book gives scholars and students alike vivid new insight into Mansfield’s creative process.
With manuscripts for each text presented in facsimile and transcript, detailed notes throughout compare early drafts with later revisions and the final published work. In the final section of the book leading scholars offer vivid new critical readings exploring the manuscript history of these stories. A detailed descriptive listing of the major Mansfield archives is also included to help researchers explore the work further.
The stories included are: ‘Je ne parle pas francais’; ‘Sun and Moon’; ‘Revelations’; ‘The Stranger’; ‘The Daughters of the Late Colonel’; ‘Mr and Mrs Dove’; ‘Marriage à la Mode’; ‘The Voyage’; ‘Six Years After’; ‘The Fly’.
Author(s): Katherine Mansfield; Todd Martin (editor)
Series: Modernist Archives
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 341
City: London
Cover
Halftitle
Series
Title page
Copyright page
Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FIGURES
ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON THE TRANSCRIPTIONS
Introduction Resurrecting Katherine Mansfield: The “Death of the Author” and the Possibilities of Genetic Criticism*
Selected Stories
A Note on the Manuscripts of “Je ne parle pas français”
A Note on the Manuscript of “Revelations”
A Note on the Manuscripts of “The Stranger”
A Note on the Manuscript and Typescript of “Poison”
A Note on the Manuscript of “The Non-Compounders [Daughters of the Late Colonel]”
A Note on the Manuscript of “Mr and Mrs Dove”
A Note on the Manuscript of “Marriage à la Mode”
A Note on the Manuscript of “The Voyage”
A Note on the Manuscripts of “Six Years After”
A Note on the Manuscript and Typescript of “The Fly”
Critical Responses
“With a strong accent on the less”: Tracing Voices in the Textual Genetics of “Je ne parle pas français”
A SUBJECT THAT IS ‘MORE OR LESS FRENCH?
The Journey from “Non-Compounders” to “The Daughters of the Late Colonel”
GENESIS AND PUBLICATION
THEMES AND COMPOSITION
PERSONAL AND CRITICAL RESPONSE
MANUSCRIPT
CONCLUSION
“All at Sea”: Sea Journeys in “The Stranger,” “The Voyage,” and “Six Years After”
“THE STRANGER” AND MARITAL ESTRANGEMENT
“THE VOYAGE” AND AN AESTHETICS OF MOURNING
“SIX YEARS AFTER”: THE SEA AND THE SPECTRAL
CONCLUSION: MEMORIALIZATION, GENDER, REDEMPTION
“A Wholesale Hanging”: Katherine Mansfield’s Sphere Stories
“What was it?”: The avant-texte and the “grinding feeling of wretchedness” in Katherine Mansfield’s “The Fly”*
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
